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Military

Jim Lonergan and Joyce Windfelder stand beside the Cpl. Charles J. Glenn Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Fishtown
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

50 years later, sustaining vivid memories of Fishtowners killed in Vietnam

Five decades later, its caretakers worry about how much longer they can keep Cpl. Charles J. Glenn 3rd U.S.M.C. Memorial going.

9 years ago

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Pennsylvania National Guard veteran Darcel Rideout wearing camouflage uniform and headset smiles at the camera
Health

Suicide crisis reaches beyond combat veterans

Veterans overall have a 22 percent higher risk of suicide than the general population, but women who served are more than twice as likely to take their own life.

9 years ago

Volunteers and residents mingle in Camp Alpha at dinnertime.
The Pulse
Health

Offering homeless vets social support first — before housing

Veterans on Patrol runs controversial, sometimes illegal, camps to get chronically homeless vets off the street.

9 years ago

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First-person shooters like 'Battlefield 3' have become very realistic.
The Pulse
Science

How online gaming communities kept two veterans from suicide

The military has a long history of using games in training, but troops also enjoy playing video games during their downtime, and some military gaming communities even help

9 years ago

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(Sara D. Davis/Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

Bowe Bergdahl's sentence: No prison time

During a sentencing hearing Friday, Bergdahl was sentenced to dishonorable discharge, loss of pay and benefits, and reduction in rank from sergeant to private.

9 years ago

Bunkong Tuon and family
Speak Easy
Education

Poem: ESL Lesson

Mrs. D showed us how to conjugate the verb to be: "I am the teacher. You are the students. He is from Cambodia. She is from Vietnam."

9 years ago

WHYY's Lincoln Financial Digital Studio is filled on Oct. 12, 2017, for a public discussion with Lynn Novick, director of PBS'
Speak Easy
Community

Vietnam’s paradox: Veterans and objectors alike can feel like ‘moral deserters’

We accepted that we were free to choose our life’s direction and obligated to choose morally, but our choices were all so unpalatable. There was no exit, no honorable option.

9 years ago

U.S. Senator Tom Carper, D-Del, presented the family of the late Private First Class James Davis, Jr. with the Bronze Star and Purple Heart Medals for Davis’ service in the Army. From left: Senator Carper, James Davis, IV, Tina Davis, James Davis, III, and Command Sergeant Major Donald Catalon.  (Provided)
Community

Delaware World War II veteran honored posthumously

The family of late Private First Class James Davis, Jr., received the Bronze Star and Purple Heart medals on his behalf, 73 years after he was killed in action.

9 years ago

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly walks past White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to begin speaking to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017.
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Authoritarianism 101: Do not question the military

The lowest moment of Trump's latest Gold Star misfire came on Friday when his mouthpiece decreed from a White House podium that military brass should be exempt from scrutiny.

9 years ago

Catzie Vilayphonh
Speak Easy
Community

To understand the Vietnam War, you’d have had to live through it

The Vietnam War impacted much more than its name implies. For people like my parents, we don’t talk about it. Like the American public, we’ve just accepted what’s been said.

9 years ago

Listen 4:50
In this image provided by the U.S. Air Force, a U.S. Army carry team transfers the remains of Army Staff Sgt. Dustin Wright of Lyons, Ga., late Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017, upon arrival at Dover Air Force Base, Del. Wright, 29, of Lyons, Ga., was one of four U.S. troops and four Niger forces killed in an ambush by dozens of Islamic extremists on a joint patrol of American and Niger Force.
National Interest
Politics & Policy

The Niger ambush: Imagine if Hillary behaved like Trump

Imagine if Hillary Clinton were president, and she'd gone two weeks without saying a single word about the deadliest combat mission of her young tenure.

9 years ago

Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Bowe Bergdahl’s guilty plea

DAN LAMOTHE of The Washington Post joins Marty to talk about Bowe Bergdahl’s guilty plea, the politiciza ...

9 years ago

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President Barack Obama salutes as he steps off of Marine One, at Dover Air Force Base, Del., Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011, before meeting privately with families of 30 Americans killed in an International Security Assistance Force helicopter crash in eastern Afghanistan.
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Trump lies, then squirms about his lie

Donald Trump will never stop serial lying. It's a reflex. But on rare occasions, his lies are challenged in real time and we get the chance to see him squirm.

9 years ago

McCain and Biden
Politics & Policy

Hailed as hero in war and Senate, John McCain accepts Liberty Medal from Joe Biden

In praise of bipartisan governance, Democrat Joe Biden and Republican John McCain extol the virtues of crossing the aisle.

9 years ago

A. Bruce Crawley, the brother of a Vietnam War veteran, talks about the ongoing effect of the war at a WHYY event related to the PBS documentary series
Community

We asked: How is the Vietnam War still affecting you?

WHYY hosted a series of public events relating to the series, and we asked attendees to tell us about how the Vietnam War still affects them today.

9 years ago

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